Click and no collect – what’s gone wrong at Tesco?
Like a previous correspondent, we are also in the group where Click and Collect is advisable.
We came into the pandemic on C & C and once you knew the secret (go on at midnight) all worked quite well. We were usually allocated a C & C slot some eight to 10 days hence.
However on April 29 we received (like thousands of others) an update from Dave Lewis the CEO, advising all they are achieving with their C & C service. Oh dear, all has gone wrong since then and we cannot get a slot now, which incidentally has gone out to three weeks hence.
We have tried for the last five nights to get a slot without success. We have tried every variation on time around midnight without luck. Last night we went onto the site at 23.52, no queue. We came out and went back on at 23.53 a queue was there, so we joined.
The “lorry” moved forward gradually until 12.03 when the screen changed, and we hoped... Alas no slots available. How can a queue have formed in only one minute for us to be so far down the queue that all slots were taken? A mystery.
David and Hilary Currie, Taynuilt.
The Corran crossing debate continues
I see that the Corran Crossing debate has resurfaced with the publication of the latest feasibility study, not that feasibility was ever in doubt – if engineers can build the Channel Tunnel and the Queensferry Crossing, feasibility to span 500 metres is child’s play.
While the report makes great play of the benefits to local residents in terms of shorter journey times they also said this in 2012 when they spent about £1 million on improving a mile of road at Drynie Hill, destroying a beautiful drive up a scenic glen and also knocking a whole five minutes off journey times.
The real cost benefit analysis here is the £1million could have been better spent – a first rate sports and leisure centre, complete with swimming pool, could have been constructed for a similar price and this really would have had a beneficial effect on locals, both adults and children, yet here we are again with councillors contemplating the expenditure of huge sums of money with no real understanding of the effects, not least on the local infrastructure, and no mention of the updating of roads on the peninsular to meet the projected demand.
Cha robh e na iongnadh sam bith gun d’ rinn a’ Bhanrigh Ealasaid ceangal eadar uabhasan an Dàrna Cogaidh agus na tha daoine a’ fulang le sgrios Covid 19. Bha i a’ craoladh bheachdan a’ comharrachadh ceann-bliadhna latha VE, nuair a ghèill Nàsaich na Gearmailte agus a thàinig crìoch air an Dàrna Cogadh san Roinn Eòrpa.
Gu ìre bha an saoghal gu lèir a’ cur clach air càrn-cuimhne na milleanan a chaill am beatha san tachartas oillteil sin agus a’ mhòr-chuid a’ feuchainn ri tuigsinn cò ris a bha e coltach naidheachd sìthe a chluinntinn seachdad ‘s a còig bliadhna air ais.
Bha sinn a’ feuchainn ri tuigsinn ri linn ’s nach eil mòran air fhàgail aig am bheil cuimhne air an latha, agus tha nas lugha buileach beò a bha an sàs sa chòmhstri! Ach abair gum bheil gach neach dhiubh airidh air cuimhne, agus urram, na càirdean sin nach b’ aithne dhuinne riamh ach an ainmean agus ma tha sinn fortanach, ’s dòcha dealbh neo dhà de dhaoine òga. Ginealach caillte, agus bu thruaighe iomadh coimhearsnachd agus a’ Ghàidhealtachd is na h-Eileanan nam measg sin. Buille chruaidh eile dha na Gàidheil, gu h-eaconamach agus gu cultarach, agus tha a’ bhuaidh nochdte fhathast.
Ged a thill mòran beò dh’fhàg na chunnaic is na dh’fhuiling iad lotan air bodhaig is inntinn nach do leighis gu tur riamh. Cluinnear bitheanta nach robh an fheadhainn a thug am beatha às a’ bhlàr deònach bruidhinn mun a’ chogadh, agus ’s e pàirt den adhbhar sin gun dùisgeadh sin cuimhne air eagal do-chreidsinneach ri uchd bualaidh.
It is estimated that just to improve the existing 64 miles of single track A861 and A884 to double track would cost a minimum of a further £50 million.
With the current pandemic threatening to change holiday and travel patterns, not least a huge increase in the use of camper vans, the ferry remains a very good “tool” in managing visitor traffic and ensuring that Ardnamurchan is not over-run as has happened on Skye.
This crazy proposal should be consigned to the dustbin of history where it belongs.
Andrew Green,
Ardtoe.
Cha b’ ann den deòin a bha iad ann ach air sgàth ’s nach robh roghainn aca, ach rinn iad na chaidh iarraidh orra agus mòran aca le gaisgeachd iomraiteach! ’S fhiach cuimhneachadh cuideachd air na geallaidhean a bhreug air falbh iad, ’s gum biodh dùthaich freagarrach air gaisgich romhpa a’ tilleadh. Cha robh an sin ach aon de na geallaidhean nach deach a choileanadh dhaibh, agus b’ fheudar dha iomadach Gàidheal òg a thàinig beò à uabhas cogaidh a’ choimhearsnachd fhèin a thrèigsinn air sgàth dìth cosnaidh is dachaigh, is freumhachadh ann am baile-mòr às nach do thill e.
’S e cùis-nàire dhan dùthaich cho beag aithne is taic ‘s a tha feadhainn a chaidh an aghaidh cunnart às ar leth a’ faotainn, chan eil dùthaich againn fhathast freagarrach dha gaisgich!
’S e nàmhaid eadar-dhealaichte ris am bheil luchd-seirbheis na slàinte a’ sabaid an-dràsta, ach tha e pailt cho iargalta agus cunnartach, agus nach bu chòir gun toireamaid duais a rèir an cuid gaisge dha na laoich sin!
Her Majesty the Queen’s VE Day message rightly urged us to remember how much we owe to those who gave so much for our freedom. We should also remember the cultural, social, and economic damage added to war casualties by the failure to deliver the promised “land fit for heroes”. Let’s make certain the health-care heroes of the Covid 19 conflict are suitably recognised!
Allan Campbell, ailean@obantimes.co.uk
Nature has a way of being heard over climate change
On December 5 last year you published my letter on Climate Change which you headed ‘booming world population is cause of climate change’. Nature has a way of dealing with population problems when we do nothing ourselves – famine, war and disease.
This time nature has chosen disease. Will we never learn?
Professor Colin Davidson, Ardfern.